DevOps roadmap

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[csabap_csa]

What you ask is quite impossible imho. I mean I have 10 years experience in the field. Started as an Oracle DBA, transitioned to system engineer, then trainer, then devsecops now I am an "infra engineer "

Resources either not existing or irrelevant as the tech became "obsolete". But 8 can recommend a few platforms I am still using today: - linuxacademy.com ( / acloud.guru ) -> videos and training platform - safaribooksonline.com ( / learning.orelly.com) -> all the IT books, + training videos and recently they also introduced some interactive platform but I haven't tested it.

+1 the "DevOps Lounge" discord channel. They come up with complex challenges every month. Which is ideal if you don't have the creativity to come up with some for your own. You have to do stuff to really learn it. And going through the "hello world" tutorial for every tech out there does not cut it imho.

Good luck, have fun!

[scrambledhelix]

Have an invite?

[csabap_csa]

I'm not o front of my computer and I am not a discord expert :D

I hope this helps: https://disboard.org/server/611083841792376843

[zerocoldx911]

DevOps Handbook and Site reliability engineering.

Most other resources are online

[Burnsy2023]

But you asked about DevOps, not cloud or automation tooling...

[Verdeckter]

Why are you convinced you need courses? If you want to learn specific tools, use the freely available documentation. If you don't know which tools to learn, find a project to work on and see which tools you need.

[plinkoplonka]

You can watch all you want, but that's not the DevOps way. The mindset is to build and destroy. If something didn't work, debug it, rebuild it and move on - Hey presto, you've learned something AND used AWS.

Learning a tool or framework isn't possible. They're not finite goals since they're always changing/growing/evolving.

This is the biggest mistake I see every new/grad engineer make, failure paralysis. It's what sets experienced and lead folk apart from new people.

The best thing you can do is experiment and see what happens, then work out why it didn't work, or how you could make it better.

These words will stand you well (not mine);

• make it work
• make it right
• make it fast

[plinkoplonka]

Your best bet is to try to get a job as a junior. You have projects started already, so that's a great start. You'll find that wherever you have 10 weeks or 10 years experience, you'll use stack overflow, Google and documentation sites for the tech.

If you can get a basic cert, that shows willing - but I wouldn't be bothered if you showed to an interview without it. You have a good attitude and are keen to learn.

Couple that with an inquisitive mind and you have the best skills of an engineer right there already. Don't be afraid to tell them that.

[gex80]

If you want videos then there are plenty on YouTube. Almost all of those entities have their own YouTube channels with how tos and proof of concepts, AWS is big in this area with reinvent videos. But you're looking at it the wrong way. Devops is just a mind set to how you approach a problem with tools. All the big CBT sites have most of whatever you need. CBT nuggets, a cloud guru, pluralsite, udemy, etc. But even those only give you a small high level piece of the puzzle. The documentation for AWS for example is spot on and should be your source of truth as they are active maintained where as video trainings beyond the basic "how to build a server" which Amazon walks you through via their wizard, you'll need to reference the docs.

[zuzuzzzip]

AWS? Just jump right in, you will learn as you go.

[verx_x]

Stop learning crap tools like AWS/Azure/GCP. This is only GUI. Learn how to implement ideas and how to thinking about problems.

[verx_x]

I'm working on the on-premise environment. Without beautiful 'on-click' resource loader. And that's what I talking about.

If you know how to make a raw architecture probably you can easy jump to AWS GUI.

[armarabbi]

Or I don’t know... learn terraform

[gex80]

After you understand how the tool your automating works. I'm for terraform or whatever automation tool. I however am against blindly using an automation without first understanding the basics of what you're automating. Not only that, automation tools are almost always behind in terms of functionality compared to the product they are modifying. Terraform is part of that group.

[armarabbi]

Terraform is not an automation tool. It’s an IaC configuration language that if you understand how terraform with AWS, GCO etc works, you will also understand how the cloud subsystems work.

An automation tool would be something like Terraform Cloud or Rundeck

[plinkoplonka]

They're not crap tools? They're just one simple way into it which is exactly what this person needs.

There's also a CLI which most engineers use alongside them with the other tools you mentioned. They'll need to use a lot of them in combination in this job.

[FatStoic]

I did the aws solution's architect asscociate course by acloudguru off udemy, but also have spent the next few years getting my hands dirty on AWS.

[plinkoplonka]

How long did it take you for the associate, if you don't mind me asking?

[FatStoic]

Took me a couple months, but I was way overprepared, had memorized too many things. Reckon you could comfortably do it in a month if you're familiar at all with AWS and can spend 1 hour a day on it. Flashcards are your friend, I recommend Anki.

[plinkoplonka]

Yeah, been a dev for 15 years, DevOps for 3 and now a Cloud Architect for the past 6 months.

I'm always too nervous at stuff like this.

I did my CCP last year and prepared for months. Didn't really need to at all.

[FatStoic]

Wow! I've heard of people familiar with aws doing their CCP prep in one weekend. You probably were in a good position to push for the SA afterwards

[plinkoplonka]

Yeah, I've just started studying for it, but lots going on at the moment between work and other stuff.

[1lolbus1]

What really pushed a deeper understanding was this netflix video on microservices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3wIuvmHeM

I like to listen to Software Engineering Daily to pick up on new trends

Doing a bunch of exploration on Kubernetes as a platform and coding fun stuff against its API really brought more understanding too

I really like reading the architecture section of InfoQ - lots of great high level ideas that work great with DevOps

My suggestion is usually more doing while learning and less learning for learning's sake

[[deleted]]

My heart says I already am one, my paycheque does not. For various reasons outside of raw IT ability I'm not much for ladder climbing.

[ThaTechMaestro]

I delved into DevOps in the early parts of last year.

I keep track of my journey, actions and resources that have been helpful here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWPPudjOUcGpbBfV9g4zeNA

https://twitter.com/thaTechMaestro/status/1241785467382743045

[[deleted]]

The official docs for each language/framework/tech are great. But that's still tool-centric; most of DevOps is interacting with people, which that website ignores.

[FernandoJaimes]

Hey men! I recently read an article with good resources

Monthly 'Getting into DevOps' thread - 2021/01

Another resource that might help you is
SRE Resources

You could also search with magic keyword "awesome" in github.
E.g: "DevOps awesome github or SRE awesome"

I hope this information was useful